Global plant conservation's phase one: The world checklist of hornworts and liverworts
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 09:35
in Biology & Nature
Although it was Charles Darwin himself who more than a century ago voiced his intention to support a complete catalogue of all known plant species, such is yet to be realised. In the present paper, however, an international research team present the first ever worldwide checklist of hornworts and liverworts, covering 7485 species from across 396 genera and representing 92 families from the two phyla.